Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press.
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Textual Production | Charlotte Perkins Gilman | CPG
's correspondence with Vernon Lee
(on whom she was an important influence) survives among Lee's papers at Somerville College
, Oxford. Zorn, Christa. Vernon Lee: Aesthetics, History, and the Victorian Female Intellectual. Ohio University Press. 182n9 |
Textual Production | Tillie Olsen | TO
's dazzling performance as a Communist speaker was the first phase of a career that led towards her later years as a star literary lecturer. As a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute
she spoke... |
Textual Production | Alice Walker | When in September 1970 Walker applied for a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute
at Cambridge to work on this novel, she was planning that her protagonist, a young, Southern woman studying at a genteel black... |
Textual Features | Tillie Olsen | Olsen gave this book a double dedication. The first read: For our silenced people, century after century their beings consumed in the hard, everyday essential work of maintaining human life. Their art, which still they... |
Occupation | Gertrude Stein | On October 24 1934 she was greeted with effusive press coverage in New York. Hobhouse, Janet. Everybody Who was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein. Doubleday. 158-9 |
Occupation | Tillie Olsen | After this, following the example of Anne Sexton
, she secured a fellowship at the Radcliffe Institute
, and moved for a year to Boston with her husband and youngest daughter. This fellowship was extended... |
Occupation | P. L. Travers | PLT
followed her writer-in-residence stint at Radcliffe College
with another year in the same position at Smith College
, in Northampton, Massachusetts. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne. xii |
Occupation | Alice Walker | Walker closed her stay at the Radcliffe Institute
with homage to Zora Neale Hurston
, whose writings and life-story she had only recently discovered. She borrowed a curse-prayer from Hurston's Mules and Men, and... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Tillie Olsen | TO
committed herself to producing a huge novel during her tenure of a Ford Foundation
grant (for two years from 1959). The burden of this commitment brought physical and mental collapse in early 1961. The... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Alice Walker | She finished work on this volume (titled from a plant which her mother rescued from a deserted house, kept for years, and gave away in cuttings) during the first year of her Radcliffe Institute
fellowship... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gertrude Stein | GS
's studies in psychology, philosophy, and medicine fiction left a deep imprint on her way of thinking and in her work. At Radcliffe College
she learned from William James
his philosophy of Pragmatism: I... |
Friends, Associates | Tillie Olsen | TO
made many personal friendships with writers; Hannah Green
, who was fifteen years younger, acted as her mentor. Reid, Panthea. Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles. Rutgers University Press. 198 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Gertrude Stein | GS
had had a flirtation with Leon Solomons
during her years at Radcliffe
, which remained [p]latonic because neither cared to do more. Wagner-Martin, Linda. Favored Strangers: Gertrude Stein and Her Family. Rutgers University Press. 37 |
Family and Intimate relationships | Rosamond Lehmann | RL
's mother, Alice Marie (Davis) Lehmann
, was from New England (of true blue Puritan Mayflower stock) Tindall, Gillian. Rosamond Lehmann: An Appreciation. Chatto and Windus; Hogarth Press. 12 |
Employer | P. L. Travers | PLT
had a year as writer-in-residence at Radcliffe College
, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Demers, Patricia. P.L. Travers. Twayne. xii |
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